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Online Collaboration Creates 'Map-Making For the Masses'

Posted by Zonk on from the many-hands-make-light-work dept.

The Science Daily site has up a piece on the effect user-generated content can have on map-making. Scientists are appreciative of the data enthusiastic mappers can provide, updating maps on changes in local geographic information. "Goodchild's paper looks at volunteered geographic information as a special case of the more general Web phenomenon of user-generated content. It covers what motivates large numbers of individuals (often with little formal qualifications) to take part, what technology allows them to do so, how accurate the results are and what volunteered geographic information can add to more conventional sources of such information."

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  1. screwmyminicity.com by jacquesm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, myminicity .com assholes. Playtime is over.

    I've really had it with the myminicity.com crowd, and to put a stop to this nonsense I've set up a little website.

    Stop posting your myminicity links here and elsewhere, if myminicity.com wants to grow they can surely find a way to do it without inconveniencing others.

    If you don't then I'm calling on the rest of the audience here to report those links to the site above and if they want to help a little further to place a 1 pixel image tag on their website which will give the myminicity .com people hopefully more traffic than they were bargaining for.

    For starters I've placed one on http://ww.com/ , feel free to come and help.

    This is just another spam wave and if this doesn't get stopped now then it will be seen as a vindication of the principle and before long there will be 100's of sites doing this.

    Rewarding your users for bad behaviour has to be one of the most annoying marketing tactics that has ever been devised.

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    1. Re:screwmyminicity.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What stone have you been living under ? There hasn't been a time in the last week or so when there were more than 3 stories in a row that did not have at least one myminicity.com link in there somewhere near the top and cloaked as small url services.

      GP is simply a pre-emptive strike. And which part of DDOS is it that you didn't get ?

      It goes to show the slashdot crowd is probably not the most intelligent choice to piss off, lots of bandwidth on this site

    2. Re:screwmyminicity.com by sgbett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Indeed, but in this thread? Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough.

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  2. Re:IYuo Fail It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't we all love the pumpkin-goatse?

  3. Re:Idiocracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linus Torvalds, sitting in front of his Linux laptop, looks through a window and sees a small penis. Linus begins laughing, but then realises that he is not looking through a window, but into a mirror, and that the tiny, shrivelled member is his own. The all too familiar sensation of black dread washes over Linus, and he begins to cry.

  4. I say fsck the bastards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    same spam as ever, but this time it`s time to crash and burn.
    fcuk them idiots. they gonna burn in hell.

  5. Re:Formal qualifications.. by theskipper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think Ms. Teen South Carolina would agree with your central thesis.

  6. Re:Formal qualifications.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    She was on TV, cut her a break, it's quite possible she couldn't function under the stress, not only that we don't know much about her psychometric or medical history at all (possible learning disability, etc?).

  7. yuo Fail It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BSD has always operating systems but suufice it Themselves to be a bureaucratic and